Just wondering if anyone else out there recieved this email.

Sounds like a great idea if enough people get on board.

- Adam

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THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' PETROL FOR ONE DAY,
BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET PETROL BACK DOWN TO
$1.00 PER Litre....

This was originally sent by Phillip Hollsworth, a retired
Coca Cola executive.

If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will
continue to rise this winter, take time to read this,
PLEASE.

Phillip offered this good idea.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy
petrol on a certain day' campaign that was going around
last April or May!

It is worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!

We are going to hit $ 2.00 a litre and it might go higher!!
Want petrol prices to come down?

We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil
companies just laughed at last year's action because
they knew we would not continue to 'hurt' ourselves
by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience
to us than it was a problem for them. BUT whoever thought
of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.


Please read on and join with us!

By now, you're probably thinking petrol priced at about
$1.50 is cheap.

It is currently $1.90 for regular unleaded.

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have
conditioned us to think that the cost of a liter of gas is
CHEAP at $1.50, we need to take aggressive action to teach
them that BUYERS control the marketplace...not sellers.

With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we
consumers need to take action.

The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come
down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not
purchasing their petrol! And, we can do that WITHOUT
hurting ourselves.

How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop
buying petrol.

But we CAN have an impact on petrol prices if we all act
together to force a price war.

Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T
purchase ANY petrol from BP
the biggest price-up driver company.

If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined
to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the
other companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions
of BP petrol buyers. It's SO simple!

Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading
and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions and
even BILLIONS of people!!

I am sending this note to 20 people.

If each of you sends it on to at least twenty more
that's (20 x 20 = 400) ..

And those 400 send it to at least twenty more (400 x 20 =
8000 ... and so on,

by the time the message reaches the fifth group of people,
we will have reached over SIXTY FOUR MILLION consumers!!!!!
20x20 = 400

400x20 = 8,000

8,000x20 = 160,000

160,000x20 = 3,200,000

3,200,000x20 = 64,000,000

64,000,000x20 = 12,800,000,000

That's 12.80 Billion people folks, who will have been
contacted!!!!!

Unbelievable?? Do the math and see for yourself!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 20 people.
That's all!
I'll bet you didn't think we had that much
potential, did you!

Acting together we can make a difference..

If this message makes sense to you, then please pass it on.


THEY will LOWER THEIR PRICES TO BELOW THE $1.50 RANGE AND
KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

It's simple - send the message along to others and
choose to not buy petrol from BP.

TWENTY FIVE POINT SIX BILLION people:



Now THAT's people power.



LET'S

JUST DO IT ! ! !

I don't buy bp fuel anyway as I have a shell card.

Would be good if this happened but some how I don't think it ever will. Not in the real world.

I only buy shell or Caltex fuel...

so I won't make any difference...

sorry

would be great if it could happen...
but it won't happen overnight

LEE

yeah well hmmm... so what has the gajillionaire ex coke bigwig got to gain from this type of ploy.. i wonder..
4 me - i only run BP 98 in the beetle as the rest of the fuels are shite.. ( i have noted more go.. hence my custom) IMO
+ the 95 RON i run in the bikes + the diesel in the T4 has never given me any probs..
im after quality fuel for my vehicles not doo gooding n water vapor save 0.0201 cents type of gimmicks and pay heaps for food as everyone needs to eat type of deal..
honestly fuel $ in this country are still cheap when compared to other countries..
a report i read today states that oz is the 4th cheapest on this planet today.. ??
when i was in europe 4 years ago fuel was over $2 a liter so i felt really happy to live here thats for sure..
i'll be back there in a few weeks to see how the price is for one observation and beer drinking for another n im sure it'll be heaps more
as one country im going to has an annual inflation rate of 18%..
scary for sure but thats what you get for being an ex-soviet state... bloody russians
h
(disclaimer: no offense to the reds under the bed in the fold )

Avg. Min. Max.
Unleaded: 115.0p 109.9p 126.9p
Diesel: 127.9p 120.9p 140.9p
LRP: 120.3p 112.9p 125.9p
Super: 122.0p 111.9p 132.9p
LPG: 57.7p 49.9p 62.9p


The above is the approximate prices in the UK at present. With the better exchange rate now compared to two years ago, the price /litre in OZ $ is around $2.40, the same as 2006. It was about 95-98p/litre then.!

DH

Maybe We will have to change back to 1200cc VW engines... lol...

so, start hoading the 1200s guys... lol

Now where did i put that PICT 28 ?????


LEE

Do I remember those 1965 days Lee! Put 10 bob ($1.00 for the youngsters!) of juice in a 1200 1961 Bug at Singleton which equated to 2.5 gallons at the time (about 11.4 litres) and made the 109 miles to Windsor without going to reserve....JUST!

DH

hmmmm not support BP than I cant drive my beetle cause only BP ultimate and a massive slug of off-road octane /race fuel booster will make it run without hissing at the carbies. (yes tried tuning....high compression causes the problem) maybe we could hit caltex up as this would impact woolies at their shop a dockets...well seriously they can handle some competition...bastards own me too much money from years ago......lat us rally and rebel against some one big not the BP country servo about to close as this will make thinks worse. A friend of mine recently moved to Northern WA said fuel is approx 10cents a litre dearer than North QLD. Fark more than $1.70 a litre.....is it wrong for me to get a bank loan to drive my beetle................

Is this a US email re written for Australia? $1.90 for regular? Not in any coastal city, not yet. Maybe its $1.90/gallon in US. And I recently heard on radio that they were blaming Coles/Shell for being the initiator of the weekly cycle. Coles start it and the rest follow.

Anyhow, as of this week I have fixed up all the oil companies. I have always been a tight arse tuesday petrol buyer, but now I've stopped driving to work. I ride the rails now and I save $12/week. I'm an eco-chris riding on electric trains. Yep, I know about the coal burning but the train was already rolling along with an empty seat so yes I AM carbon neutral. I also get conditioning for city 2 surf by running up the 1km hill to get home. I finally got to read my Zeitschrift from 2 months ago, no arseholes have cut me off in traffic, I havent had to scream abuse at the endless red lights. It takes the same amount of time in the afternoon, only 5 minutes longer in the morning yet feels heaps quicker.

It only comes unstuck when today I missed the train (it pulled out just as I got there) and so I had to drive to work... my first weeks savings have evaporated. Never mind, 2 out of 3 aint bad and I may have more luck tomorrow

I don't understand how not buying fuel from BP will make an overall difference. Ok say everyone stops buying from BP and they lower their prices? Why would the competitors lower their prices if they are getting all the customers? But I guess it's still worth a try.

Besides, I never use BP fuel anyway. I always notice a big difference in economy and performance for the worse. Caltex has been the most consistent for me.

Hmmm, got a caltex fuel card so it doesn't impact my petrol choice. Its a fun time we live in, everythings going up....

Got these in the email today.

get use to it

It is going to get worse
Without being pessimistic wait and see what electricity prices do in the coming year.
They all semi privitised 5 years ago where you got Integral power etc etc.
All those deals that were done come unstuct in 2009

As India comes on board along with China and they will all want cars to drive
What do you think will happen to prices then??

Petrol, power and water will all increase dramatically in the next couple of years

Regards,

Matt.

keep the cartoons coming. Gold!

One of the main problem we have in Australia is our Govts alignment with World Parity Prices. The other is that all our fuel oil is sent o/s for purification and then brought back in. About 5 - 6 years ago 1million barrels of oil per day was dragged up from North West Shelf & Bass Strait at a cost of $6 per barrel, onsold to the Govt for $1 more,shipped o/s to a refinery and brought back here under the guise of the World Parity price structure. We are one of the 3 richest resources nations in the world with our bauxite, diamonds, coal, gasses, gold and other commodities. We should be refining our fuel here. The petrol companies can more than afford the costs. We should be selling our fuel/gasses to other nations. About the same time (5 - 6 ) years ago Fletcher Challenge NZ in conjunction with Mobil NZ undertook a project based on a 1974 study at a Sth Aust Uni whereby a fuel was derived from gas at a cost of 12c per litre. Another major also did the same and was able to bring the cost down to 6c per litre. Never seen the light of day for the ordinary motorist. Rather the govt depts make use of it. And what about Venenuezla ? Have you seen their pump prices ? It`ll make you cry.

I thank God that we run our LandCruiser on LPG and have just had the Kombi converted as well. We still run the Kombi on petrol for short trips (she takes 5mins on petrol to warm up sufficiently before I can change her over to gas), but even the gas price has gone up by 20c in the past 2 years.

And they don't have to refine LPG!!!

I can't see it getting any better in the short time, and wonder if the retired Coke executive has come up with a way in which we can run our cars on Coke, although $6.66 a litre is damn expensive!

I was looking at a fuel log book i used to keep for the kombi. in 1996 i went for a trip to the blue mountains from the gold coast. the cost of fuel for the trip varied from 65/litre to 80/litre...12 years ago! why bitch about the price of fuel now? it's doubled but so has your income

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Originally posted by rocknrob I was looking at a fuel log book i used to keep for the kombi. in 1996 i went for a trip to the blue mountains from the gold coast. the cost of fuel for the trip varied from 65/litre to 80/litre...12 years ago! why bitch about the price of fuel now? it's doubled but so has your income

Scary thing is that I am paying as much to fill up my motorbike as what it used to cost me to fill up my dub when I was a teenager.

1 & sixpence just doesn't go as far as it used to anymore.......

Only use about 5 litres of fuel a week, so it's not too bad at the moment. We just walk most places or catch the train into the city.

Well we are in a VW, so might as well go the whole way. In fact you don't realise how close to the whole truth you are. LOL

Truth??? It's all lies conjured up with mirrors. I am just a tigharse that enjoys the convenience of the bike as it can do in traffic what my VW can't. I make my dub feel special by using it on special occasions like Tuesdays when fuel is cheap!!!

BTW I am too carnivorous and evil to ever stoop to your kombi driving ways!! Esp now that you have crossed to the dark side and gone all out on wartercooling. Sorry Pete.
- Adam

just to continue this thread but in a slightly different but connected vein

Who out there has bought rice lately??
I cook a lot - mainly curries.

Rice has gon from $12.50 per 10kg bag to the cheapest i can get it at $27.50

That is a 220% increase in a matter of weeks.

There have been several reasons why this has been done but one of the reasons i have been reading about is because of pressure that is being exerted on people to grow ethanol based crops to keep the west happy

Jasmine rice from asian grocer $19.00 for 10kg. I love rice. The higher prices is a conspiracy like the Banana prices were.

Adam, I have to say watercooled is not always easy. I blew up Suby motor. To many 6800rpm rev limits racing P plate V6 Commodores. The last one beat me. Oh and one day I will race you with my classic jap rice bike against Sportster. Fun? LOL

My wife's family is from Auburn. I always found it extremely interesting. It was kind of like an apartheid set up. Middle Easterns at one end, Asians at the other. Other than that, it is the double parking capital of the world. If you like using your horn, Auburn is THE place to go.